University Of Toronto Press Scholarly Publishing Division: 2585 books
Copyfight
The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Widespread file sharing has led content industries – publishers and distributors of books, music, films, and software – to view their customers as growing threats to their survival. Content providers and their allies, especially the U.S. government, have pushed for stronger global copyright policies...
Theodahad
A Platonic King at the Collapse of Ostrogothic Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Educated in Platonic philosophy rather than the military arts, the Ostrogothic king Theodahad was never meant to rule. His unexpected nomination as co-regent by his cousin Queen Amalasuintha plunged him into the intrigues of the Gothic court, and Theodahad soon conspired to assassinate the queen....
by Aloysius Balawyder
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
This study, based on archives only recently made available, examines Canada’s relations with the Soviet Union between the first and second world wars. It shows how Canada’s policy towards Russia was influenced by the economic and foreign policies of Great Britain, by the revolutionary policies...
'Lector Ludens'
The Representation of Games & Play in Cervantes
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain, debating the acceptability of games and recreation was serious business. With Lector Ludens, Michael Scham uses Cervantes’s Don Quijote and Novelas ejemplares as the basis for a wide-ranging exploration of early modern Spanish views on recreations ranging...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1970
A representative selection of the best poetry of Spain's Golden Age.
Subversive Itinerary
The Thought of Gad Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Subversive Itinerary investigates the theoretical evolution of the influential political theorist Gad Horowitz, as well as the historical impact of his ideas on Canadian life and letters. Bringing together dynamic new works by both established and emerging scholars, along with three new articles by...
Glaucoma
A Patient's Guide to the Disease, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2011
Primary or chronic open angle glaucoma is a painless condition usually associated with high pressure in the eye. It affects approximately four per cent of all people over the age of fifty. Untreated, glaucoma is a major cause of blindness worldwide.
Glaucoma: A Patient's Guide to the Disease...
The Blueprint
Conservative Parties and their Impact on Canadian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
In this collection, J.P. Lewis and Joanna Everitt bring together a group of up-and coming-political scientists as well as senior scholars to explore the recent history of the Conservative Party of Canada, covering the pre-merger period (1993–2003) and both the minority and majority governments under...
by Edwin Guillet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Here is a record of one of history's great migrations, the Atlantic Migration to the New World, especially from 1770 to 1890, when eleven million people came from the British Isles to North America. The slow crossing by sailing ship was unpleasant even in the best accommodation, but for the poor conditions...
Canada Looks South
In Search of an Americas Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent events in the western hemisphere have led to a dramatic shift in the strategic and political importance of Latin America. But with relations still cool between the United States and Cuba, and Venezuela becoming more distant every day, there is considerable potential for Canada – with its...
Democratic Government and Politics
Third Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1951
Completely revised and enlarged edition (1951) of a book which has become a standard work on comparative government. This edition brings up to date the material on institutions and practices of government in Britain, the United States, and Canada, and analyses more fully the relationship of democratic institutions and practices to the essentials of the democratic creed.
by David Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Beasley's Guide to Library Research offers straightforward help in navigating the complex labyrinth of library research. Suitable for novice and experienced researcher alike, this revised classic is an invaluable tool for locating and using materials from research libraries anywhere in the world.
Written...
Making and Breaking the Rules
Women in Quebec, 1919-1939
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1994
During the interwar period, Quebec was a strongly patriarchal society, where men in the Church, politics, and medicine, maintained a traditional norm of social and sexual standards that women were expected to abide by. Some women in the media and religious communities were complicit with this vision,...
Allied Power
Mobilizing Hydro-electricity during Canada's Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Canada emerged from the Second World War as a hydro-electric superpower. Only the United States generated more hydro power than Canada and only Norway generated more per capita. Allied Power is about how this came to be: the mobilization of Canadian hydro-electricity during the war and the impact...